South Dakota or?????

bswiv · May 26, 2008, 07:27 AM

Looking for a place to try ducks/geese not to far from Sioux Falls SD.

We're going to be pheasant hunting in south-central SD in mid October and would like to spend a couple of days trying the ducks/geese before we leave. We'll be flying out of Sioux Falls so anything within a couple of hours of there, north,south or east, would be good.

Any ideas, contacts appreciated.

UniversalFrost · May 29, 2008, 03:10 PM

ok, here is my secret ( I am from SD).

go to the springfield area and have the waterfowl hunt of your life. The missouri and niobrara rivers meet and the nobrara dumps a lot of silt into the missouri and forms loads of reed covered islands. The ducks geese, and swans are there by the millions since it is also where the flyways converge. You will need a flat bottom (jon) boat. If you go to the nebraska side you can rent one from the folks in niobrara. Also, the pheasant hunting in the area is pretty good as well, but they don't let strangers hunt the land mostly.
My folks still have a few thousand acres in the area, but they lease out their hunting rights and only allow family or the leasee on the property to hunt after some idiots from Sioux falls shot one of our horses a few years ago thinking it was a deer (wasn't even deer season). Luckily the horse survived and the idiot got busted for attempted poaching (admitted he thought it was a deer to the game warden) and for shooting within so many hundred feet of livestock etc...

If you really want good pheasant hunting head on out towards pierre and hunt some of the corn fields near winner .

Happy hunting.

bswiv · May 31, 2008, 06:00 AM

Frost..............

Do you know any guides/outfitters?

We have the pheasants covered but would like to get into the ducks/geese.

UniversalFrost · June 2, 2008, 07:43 PM

sorry, no experience with guides as I grew up in that area and know the land pretty well. My guess would be to go online and check the local papers for springfield SD, Yankton SD and Niobrara Nebraska.

waudcutter · June 9, 2008, 11:30 PM

You can hunt the goose pits on the Lower Brule Indian Reservation just west of Chamberlain. Last time I hunted there several hundred thousand geese were feeding along the river there. You have to get out to the Missouri to get in to the geese. Since SD pheasants can't be hunted till the afteroons, you can hunt the goose pits in the mornings and pheasants in the afternoon.

All you need is a tribal license, a federal stamp and a state hunting license. They take you out and set you up in the pits. Bring lots of shells!

Google Lower Brule hunting. You'll find them.

May 26, 2008, 07:27 AM	#1
bswiv Senior Member Join Date: June 4, 2006 Location: NE FL....... Posts: 1,081	South Dakota or????? Looking for a place to try ducks/geese not to far from Sioux Falls SD. We're going to be pheasant hunting in south-central SD in mid October and would like to spend a couple of days trying the ducks/geese before we leave. We'll be flying out of Sioux Falls so anything within a couple of hours of there, north,south or east, would be good. Any ideas, contacts appreciated.

May 29, 2008, 03:10 PM	#2
UniversalFrost Senior Member Join Date: February 20, 2006 Location: Ohio Posts: 2,300	ok, here is my secret ( I am from SD). go to the springfield area and have the waterfowl hunt of your life. The missouri and niobrara rivers meet and the nobrara dumps a lot of silt into the missouri and forms loads of reed covered islands. The ducks geese, and swans are there by the millions since it is also where the flyways converge. You will need a flat bottom (jon) boat. If you go to the nebraska side you can rent one from the folks in niobrara. Also, the pheasant hunting in the area is pretty good as well, but they don't let strangers hunt the land mostly. My folks still have a few thousand acres in the area, but they lease out their hunting rights and only allow family or the leasee on the property to hunt after some idiots from Sioux falls shot one of our horses a few years ago thinking it was a deer (wasn't even deer season). Luckily the horse survived and the idiot got busted for attempted poaching (admitted he thought it was a deer to the game warden) and for shooting within so many hundred feet of livestock etc... If you really want good pheasant hunting head on out towards pierre and hunt some of the corn fields near winner . Happy hunting. __________________ Lifetime member VFW and NRA "Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati" (when all else fails play dead) -Red Green

June 2, 2008, 07:43 PM	#4
UniversalFrost Senior Member Join Date: February 20, 2006 Location: Ohio Posts: 2,300	sorry, no experience with guides as I grew up in that area and know the land pretty well. My guess would be to go online and check the local papers for springfield SD, Yankton SD and Niobrara Nebraska. __________________ Lifetime member VFW and NRA "Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati" (when all else fails play dead) -Red Green

May 31, 2008, 06:00 AM	#3
bswiv Senior Member Join Date: June 4, 2006 Location: NE FL....... Posts: 1,081	Frost.............. Do you know any guides/outfitters? We have the pheasants covered but would like to get into the ducks/geese.

June 9, 2008, 11:30 PM	#5
waudcutter Member Join Date: April 14, 2007 Location: Iowa Posts: 41	You can hunt the goose pits on the Lower Brule Indian Reservation just west of Chamberlain. Last time I hunted there several hundred thousand geese were feeding along the river there. You have to get out to the Missouri to get in to the geese. Since SD pheasants can't be hunted till the afteroons, you can hunt the goose pits in the mornings and pheasants in the afternoon. All you need is a tribal license, a federal stamp and a state hunting license. They take you out and set you up in the pits. Bring lots of shells! Google Lower Brule hunting. You'll find them.